Title: Infinity + One
Author: Amy Harmon
Release Date: June 10
Cover Design: Berto Designs
Hosted by: Vilma's Book Blog
Synopsis
When two unlikely allies become two unwitting outlaws, will two
unforgettable lovers defy unbeatable odds?
Bonnie Rae Shelby is a superstar. She’s rich. She’s beautiful.
She’s impossibly famous. And Bonnie Rae Shelby wants to die.
Finn Clyde is a nobody. He’s broken. He’s brilliant. He’s
impossibly cynical. And all he wants is a chance at life.
One girl. One boy. An act of compassion. A bizarre set of
circumstances. And a choice – turn your head and walk away, or reach out your
hand and risk it all?
With that choice, the clock starts ticking on a man with a past
and a girl who can’t face the future, counting down the seconds in an adventure
riddled with heartbreak and humor, misunderstanding and revelation. With the
world against them, two very different people take a journey that will not only
change their lives, but may cost them their lives as well.
Infinity + One is a tale of shooting stars and fame and
fortune, of gilded cages and iron bars, of finding a friend behind a stranger’s
face, and discovering love in the oddest of places.
Excerpt
He bit back a curse and strode to his
truck. Unlocking the door, he tossed his bags in the backseat, climbed in, and
slammed the door. He turned the key and backed out resolutely, trying to ignore
the fact that she had risen, her hands on her bags, and that her hood had
slipped from her head. She didn’t move forward, didn’t call out to him to wait.
She just stood there, watching him go. He shifted into drive and made it 100
feet before he let his eyes find her figure in the rear view mirror.
“Unbelievable,” Finn ground out, and
slammed the wheel with the palm of his hand. He slowed to a stop.
“UNBELIEVABLE!” he reprimanded himself even as he engaged the brake, pushed the
door open and lurched out of the idling vehicle. Bonnie still stood with her
two duffle bags in her hands, her grandma’s stolen purse on her shoulder, but
now her lips were slightly parted, clearly stunned that he’d stopped.
And she wasn’t the only one. Finn felt
like he was split right down the middle. The rational part of his brain, the
side that ensured his survival and his sanity, was outraged, demanding that he
keep driving, while the side of his brain that was connected to his heart and
other parts of his body was breathing a sigh of relief that he hadn’t let her
get away.
She didn’t move, as if she was sure
that the moment she did he would change his mind, climb back in the Blazer, and
drive away. So he walked back to her, battling with himself every step of the
way. He walked until they were practically toe to toe, her dark eyes wide and
lifted to his, his hands shoved into his pockets so he wouldn’t strangle her.
But his pockets felt like manacles around his wrists and he yanked them free,
fisting them in the front of Bonnie’s puffy pink coat and raising her up on her
toes and into him until they weren’t toe to toe any longer but nose to nose.
His emotions were a big tangled ball of anger, longing, and injustice all wrapped
up in impatient outrage, and Finn couldn’t separate one feeling from another.
So he did the only thing he could do. He kissed her.
It wasn’t a soft kiss or a sweet kiss.
It was a
‘you-scared-me-and-messed-with-me-and-I’m-mad-and-relieved-and-unbelievably-frustrated’
kind of kiss. It was teeth and lips and nipping and bruising, and Finn couldn’t
make himself stop, even when Bonnie’s teeth tugged at his lower lip and her
hands pulled at his hair. Especially then. And when she wrapped her arms around
his neck and stepped up onto his toes so that she could press herself flush
against him, he decided revenge really was sweet, and enjoyed the feel of her
face against his, the wet heat of her mouth making him forget he was standing
in the middle of a Motel 6 parking lot with his ride rumbling behind him, the
driver side door still hanging wide open. The rational part of his brain was
stunned into peaceful silence…for all of ten seconds.
About the Author
Amy Harmon knew at an early age that writing was something she
wanted to do, and she divided her time between writing songs and stories as she
grew. Having grown up in the middle of wheat fields without a television, with
only her books and her siblings to entertain her, she developed a strong sense
of what made a good story.
Amy Harmon has been a motivational speaker, a grade school
teacher, a junior high teacher, a home school mom, and a member of the Grammy Award
winning Saints Unified Voices Choir, directed by Gladys Knight. She released a
Christian Blues CD in 2007 called “What I Know” – also available on Amazon and
wherever digital music is sold. She has written five novels, Running Barefoot,
Slow Dance in Purgatory, Prom Night in Purgatory, the New York Times
Bestseller, A Different Blue, Making Faces, and coming in June, Infinity + One.
Giveaway
Amy Harmon is giving
away three pre-release ARC paperbacks to three lucky winners!
Open Internationally!
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